The Suitcase Kid

When My Parents Split Up They Didn't Know What To Do With Me . . . My Family Always Lived At Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, Me - And Radish, My Sylvanian Rabbit. But Now Mum Lives With Bill The Baboon And His Three Kids. Dad Lives With Carrie And Her Twins. And Where Do I Live? I Live Out Of A Suitcase. One Week With Mum's New Family, One Week With Dad's. It's As Easy As A B C. That's What Everyone Says. But All I Want Is To Go Home - Back To Mulberry Cottage... MEET TEN-YEAR-OLD ANDY. THE SUITCASE KID. "When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me. My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my lovable toy rabbit. But now, Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase." Andy has always lived at Mulberry Cottage with her mum and dad. But when they split up, Andy has to say goodbye to her childhood home. Now she spends one week at her mum's and one week at her dad's. With a brand-new stepfamily to deal with and two new houses, will Andy ever feel at home? Written by the multi-award-winning author, Jacqueline Wilson, The Suitcase Kid explores the emotions around divorce with humour, and ultimately optimism. The perfect book to start conversations about difficult topics like divorce with young readers. Gripping, funny and sensitively written - Independent on Sunday Andrea Wests parents are divorced, and her tiny stuffed rabbit, Radish, seems her only comfort in the world. She must leave the home she loves with the mulberry tree in the front yard and deal with parents who still fight, stepparents, step-siblings, two different bedrooms (neither of which is really hers), loneliness, and an acute longing for the past. Her grades sink, her friends drift away, and she's not quite sure how to fix any of it. Eventually, though, a new equilibrium begins to settle on her life. Honest and true-to-life, Andys story shows that dealing with divorce is never easy.

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when Andy's Parents Get Divorced, She Finds Herself Spending Alternate Weeks At Mom's House, Then At Dad's, And Longs For The Days When They Were All At Home Together. Ages 9-12. (aug.)

Andrea has trouble adjusting to her parents divorce and spending alternate weeks with each parent and their new families creates friction until Andrea settles into her new life Ten-year-old Andrea tries to deal with her parents' divorce and the presence of stepparents, stepsisters, and stepbrothers